A personal, guided tour to the best scoops and stories every day in The Wall Street Journal, from Editor in Chief Gerard Baker.

Good morning from Santa Barbara, Calif., where I am hosting our annual ECO:nomics conference on energy and the environment.

A Flight Into Hell

In a turn of events that raises chilling questions for airlines and their passengers, French prosecutors suggested that the people on board Germanwings Flight 9525 were willfully flown to their deaths by the aircraft’s co-pilot. Our stories report on the preliminary findings from the plane’s black box voice recorder, reflect on the lives of the victims, and examine the mystery...